Can anyone recomend a good intoduction to C...

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <lX5q6.45269$1D5.2047774 at e420r-atl1.usenetserver.com>,
Steve Holden <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>"Werner Schiendl" <ws-news at gmx.at> wrote in message
>news:984132875.222868 at newsmaster-04.atnet.at...
>>
>> What's TMTOWTDI, please?
>
>There's another programming language whose name begins with P, whose primary
>philosophy is demonstrated in the well-known phrase"
>
>    "There's More Than One Way to Do It"
>
>This means that it's more difficult to establish recognisable programming
>idioms, because for every task there are between three and seventeen ways to
>accomplish it, and the choice is usually made on efficiency grounds rather
>than those of program readability.

More often than that, the idiom chosen is simply the one the programmer
happens to know, because zie succeeded in learning that idiom from
another person's program and therefore sticks to it like a leech because
zie *knows* the idiom will work.
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